MESSAGE TO ATTEND THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS

Message to attend the Lords Commissioners delivered by the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod.
	 The Speaker-Elect, with the House, went up to be presented to the Lords Commiss i oners for Her Majesty's Royal Approbation; and returned.

Mr Speaker: I have to report that this House has been in the House of Lords where Her Majesty, by Her Royal Commissioners, has been pleased to approve the choice made of myself for the Office of Speaker. I have, in your name and on your behalf, made claim by humble petition to Her Majesty to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, and freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion shall require, and that the most favourable construction shall be put upon all proceedings. All these Her Majesty, by Her Commissioners, has been pleased to confirm in as ample a manner as they have ever been granted or confirmed by Herself or by any of Her Royal Predecessors.
	My first duty to the House is to report my respectful acknowledgement and grateful thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in the Chair.
	On a personal note, my second responsibility is to restate my absolute impartiality in this Chamber and beyond it. My final pleasure is to confirm my commitment to ensuring that Back-Bench Members have their rightful voice in our proceedings.

Members Sworn

Mr Speaker: I must now call on the Members of the House, according to the usual custom, to take the Oath of Allegiance or to affirm at the Table of the House, first doing so myself.
	 The Speaker, alone, standing on the upper step of the Chair, made and subscribed the Affirmation required by law.

Mr. Speaker: I should remind hon. Members that until they take the Oath or affirm, they must not sit during any debate or vote in any Division of the House, and will not receive any salary.
	The arrangements for swearing in are set out in the Chamber information sheet, and a guidance note is also available from the Table and Vote Offices.
	I propose to call first the Father of the House, then members of the Cabinet, then members of the shadow Cabinet, then all Privy Counsellors not included in those two groups, wherever they may be sitting, and then other Ministers. Thereafter, I shall call other hon. Members according to the Parliament of their first entry, or, for those with broken service, that of most recent entry. The first batch will be those elected in or before the 1992-97 Parliament. Thereafter I shall proceed to call Members by successive Parliaments. Realistically, I do not expect to call new Members until tomorrow.
	I propose to remain in the Chair until 5.30 pm today, and then to return at 6.30pm and continue until 8.30 pm if necessary. The House will sit again tomorrow at 10.30 am, and on Monday at 2.30 pm. Tomorrow I propose to be in the Chair for swearing in until 12.30 pm, and then from 1.30 pm until 3.30 pm, and then again from 4.30 pm until 6.30 pm if necessary. I hope that by Monday afternoon we will have made sufficient progress to enable all Members to swear in who wish to do so. I hope that Members will come forward in an orderly manner.
	I remind Members that the taking of the Oath, as a proceeding of the House, is recorded by the television cameras, and that anything said or done by Members may appear on television or be picked up by microphones. It will assist the broadcasters if new Members state their name and constituency when they come to the Dispatch Box. Progress will depend, of course, on the number of Members wishing to take the Oath at any particular time. I advise Members to watch the Annunciators to establish progress, and to speak to their Whips.
	 The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation, required by law:
	Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell,  for Louth and Horncastle
	Right honourable David William Donald Cameron, Witney
	Right honourable Nicholas William Peter Clegg, Sheffield, Hallam
	Right honourable William Jefferson Hague, Richmond (Yorks )
	Right honourable George Gideon Oliver Osborne, Tatton
	Right honourable David Anthony Laws, Yeovil
	Right honourable Liam Fox, North Somerset
	Right honourable Eric Jack Pickles, Brentwood and Ongar
	Right honourable and learned Kenneth Harry Clarke, Rushcliffe
	Right honourable Andrew David Lansley, South Cambridgeshire
	Right honourable Christopher Murray Paul Huhne, Eastleigh
	Right honourable Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt, South West Surrey
	Right honourable Philip Hammond, Runnymede and Weybridge
	Right honourable Michael Andrew Gove, Surrey Heath
	Right honourable Oliver Letwin, West Dorset
	Right honourable Caroline Alice Spelman, Meriden
	Right honourable Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Horsham
	Right honourable George Iain Duncan Smith, Chingford and Woodford Green
	Right honourable Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, North West Hampshire
	Right honourable Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, Beaconsfield
	Right honourable Patrick Allen McLoughlin, Derbyshire Dales
	Right honourable David Wright Miliband, South Shields
	Right honourable Alistair Maclean Darling, Edinburgh South West
	Right honourable and learned Harriet Harman, Camberwell and Peckham
	Right honourable Alan Arthur Johnson, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	Right honourable Hilary James Benn, Leeds Central
	Right honourable Yvette Cooper, Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
	Right honourable Robert William Ainsworth, Coventry North East
	Right honourable John Yorke Denham, Southampton, Itchen
	Right honourable Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw, Exeter
	Right honourable Shaun Anthony Woodward, St Helens South and Whiston
	Right honourable Dawn Primarolo, Bristol South
	Right honourable Sadiq Aman Khan, Tooting
	Right honourable John Healey, Wentworth and Dearne
	Right honourable Rosalie Winterton, Doncaster Central
	Right honourable Nicholas Hugh Brown, Newcastle upon Tyne East
	Right honourable Daniel Grian Alexander, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
	Alistair Morrison Carmichael, Orkney and Shetland
	Right honourable Sir Alan James Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed
	Right honourable Keith Anthony Vaz, Leicester East
	Right honourable Thomas Clarke, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	Right honourable Charles Peter Kennedy, Ross, Skye and Lochaber
	Right honourable Anne Catherine McGuire, Stirling
	Right honourable David George Hanson, Delyn
	Right honourable Margaret Mary Beckett, Derby South
	Right honourable Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, North East Fife
	Right honourable Malcolm Gray Bruce, Gordon
	Right honourable Andrew David Smith, Oxford East
	Right honourable Caroline Louise Flint, Don Valley
	Right honourable Ann Clwyd, Cynon Valley
	Right honourable Sir John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling
	Right honourable Sir Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Saffron Walden
	Right honourable George Edward Howarth, Knowsley
	Right honourable Alun Edward Michael, Cardiff South and Penarth
	Right honourable Paul Peter Murphy, Torfaen
	Right honourable John Francis Spellar, Warley
	Right honourable Frank Gordon Dobson, Holborn and St Pancras
	Right honourable Paul Gerard Goggins, Wythenshawe and Sale East
	Right honourable Denis MacShane, Rotherham
	Alistair James Hendrie Burt, North East Bedfordshire
	Honourable and learned Edward Henry Garnier, Harborough
	Damian Howard Green, Ashford
	Alan James Carter Duncan, Rutland and Melton
	David Roy Lidington, Aylesbury
	Jeremy Richard Browne, Taunton Deane
	Timothy Paul Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham
	Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt, Reigate
	Charles Hendry, Wealden
	Robert James MacGillivray Neill, Bromley and Chislehurst
	Nicolas John Gibb, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
	James Gerald Douglas Howarth, Aldershot
	David Julian Winnick, Walsall North
	Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd, Aldridge-Brownhills
	Simon Henry Ward Hughes, Bermondsey and Old Southwark
	Catharine Letitia Hoey, Vauxhall
	Brian Harold Donohoe, Central Ayrshire Lab
	James Dolan Cunningham, Coventry South
	Michael Cathel Fallon, Sevenoaks
	Michael Alan Penning, Hemel Hempstead
	David Gordon Mundell, Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
	Theresa Anne Villiers, Chipping Barnet
	Andrew Peter Miller, Ellesmere Port and Neston
	Richard Haines Burden Birmingham, Northfield
	Mark James Harper, Forest of Dean
	John David Penrose, Weston-super-Mare
	Roger James Gale, North Thanet
	Eric Evelyn Illsley, Barnsley Central
	Gregory Leonard George Barker, Bexhill and Battle
	James Whiteside Gray, North Wiltshire
	Michael Louis David Fabricant, Lichfield
	Alexander John Randall, Uxbridge and South Ruislip
	Right honourable Malcolm Hunt Wicks, Croydon North
	Mark James Hunter, Cheadle
	Lee Scott, Ilford North
	Gregory William Hands, Chelsea and Fulham
	Shailesh Lakhman Vara, North West Cambridgeshire
	Charles Ashley Rupert Walker, Broxbourne
	William Nigel Paul Cash, Stone
	Stephen Pelham Pound, Ealing North
	Jeremy Paul Wright, Kenilworth and Southam
	Stephen Crabb, Preseli Pembrokeshire
	William David Wiggin, North Herefordshire
	Philip Martin Dunne, Ludlow
	Peter William Bone, Wellingborough
	Henry Campbell Bellingham, North West Norfolk
	Maria Frances Lewis Miller, Basingstoke
	Angela Eileen Watkinson, Hornchurch and Upminster
	Philip Thomas Hollobone, Kettering
	Robert Goodwill, Scarborough and Whitby
	Jeremy Bernard Corbyn, Islington North
	Sir Alexander Paul Beresford, Mole Valley
	Robert Andrew Raymond Syms, Poole
	Gerard Sutcliffe, Bradford South
	Fabian Hamilton, Leeds North East
	Ronald Campbell, Blyth Valley
	David Anderson, Blaydon
	Gregory Lloyd Campbell, East Londonderry
	Helen Mary Jones, Warrington North
	John Derek Twigg, Halton
	Elfyn Llwyd, Dwyfor Meirionnydd
	David Anthony Andrew Amess, Southend West
	Robert Thomas William McCrea, South Antrim
	Nigel Alexander Dodds, Belfast North
	Kevin Denis Brennan, Cardiff West
	Lindsay Harvey Hoyle, Chorley
	David Anthony Crausby, Bolton North East
	David Leonard Watts, St Helens North
	David Lindsay Willetts, Havant
	Mark Michael Prisk, Hertford and Stortford
	Justine Greening, Putney
	Mark Gerard Hoban, Fareham
	Nicholas Richard Hurd, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
	Adrian Mark Sanders, Torbay
	Nicholas Barton Harvey, North Devon
	Sarah Louise Teather, Brent Central
	Right honourable John Vincent Cable, Twickenham
	Barry John Sheerman, Huddersfield
	Valerie Vaz, Walsall South
	David Michael Gauke, South West Hertfordshire
	Michael Connarty, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	Right honourable Michael Hugh Meacher, Oldham West and Royton
	Sandra Currie Osborne, Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
	Kevan David Jones, North Durham
	Brian Arthur Roland Binley, Northampton South
	Stewart Hosie, Dundee East
	John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, Maldon
	William James Clappison, Hertsmere
	Antony Brian Baldry, Banbury
	Hugh Bayley, York Central
	Joan Lorraine Walley, Stoke-on-Trent North
	Julian William Hendy Brazier, Canterbury
	Right honourable John Alan Redwood, Wokingham
	Anthony Joseph Lloyd, Manchester Central
	Glenda May Jackson, Hampstead and Kilburn

Mr Speaker: Members elected to the 1997-2001 Parliament can expect to be sworn in from 4.45 today, so I hope that there will be a trickle of such Members, and maybe more.
	Maria Eagle, Garston and Halewood
	Right honourable David Michael Davis, Haltemprice and Howden
	David Wright, Telford
	Andrew John Turner, Isle of Wight
	Right honourable Douglas Garven Alexander, Paisley and Renfrewshire South
	Sir Robert Hill Smith, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	John Webster Robertson, Glasgow North West
	Alan Keen, Feltham and Heston
	Andrew Henry George, St Ives
	Margaret Ann Coffey, Stockport
	Marek Jerzy Lazarowicz, Edinburgh North and Leith
	Martin Phillip Caton, Gower
	Edward Jonathon Davey, Kingston and Surbiton
	Michael Kevin Moore, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
	Ifor Huw Irranca-Davies, Ogmore
	Virendra Kumar Sharma, Ealing, Southall
	Alan Campbell, Tynemouth
	Angela Eagle, Wallasey
	Joseph Edward Benton, Bootle
	Ian Colin Lucas, Wrexham
	Alasdair McDonnell, Belfast South
	William Thomas Bain, Glasgow North East
	Christopher Michael Leslie, Nottingham East
	Paul Phillip Flynn, Newport West
	Austin Vernon Mitchell, Great Grimsby
	Christopher Paul Farrelly, Newcastle-under-Lyme
	Roger Hugh Williams, Brecon and Radnorshire
	Mark Fraser Williams, Ceredigion
	Stephen Roy Williams, Bristol West
	Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns, Chelmsford
	Thomas Anthony Cunningham, Workington
	Thomas Anthony Brake, Carshalton and Wallington
	Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Mid Sussex
	Andrew Robert George Robathan, South Leicestershire
	Catherine McKinnell, Newcastle upon Tyne North
	John David Cairns, Inverclyde
	Mark Christopher Field, Cities of London and Westminster
	John Mark Durkan, Foyle
	Martin Charles Horwood, Cheltenham
	Julian Leon Huppert, Cambridge
	Fiona Margaret Mactaggart, Slough
	Madeleine Moon, Bridgend
	Meg Hillier, Hackney South and Shoreditch
	Hywel Williams, Arfon
	Mike Wood, Batley and Spen
	Siân Catherine James, Swansea East
	Helen Catherine Goodman, Bishop Auckland
	James Fitzpatrick, Poplar and Limehouse
	Steven John Webb, Thornbury and Yate
	Patrick John Mercer, Newark
	Angus Struan Carolus Robertson, Moray
	Joan Mary Ruddock, Lewisham, Deptford
	Frank Doran, Aberdeen North
	Lady Sylvia Eileen Hermon, North Down
	Mark Phillip Hendrick, Preston
	Albert Owen, Ynys Môn
	Clive James Charles Betts, Sheffield South East
	Right honourable Patrick Bosco McFadden, Wolverhampton South East
	Jessica Elizabeth Morden, Newport East
	Peter Wishart, Perth and North Perthshire
	Alan Reid, Argyll and Bute
	Nia Rhiannon Griffith, Llanelli
	James Edward Thornton Paice, South East Cambridgeshire
	Anne Begg, Aberdeen South
	Robert Ben Lobban Wallace, Wyre and Preston North
	Christopher Stephen Grayling, Epsom and Ewell
	Mark Gino Francois, Rayleigh and Wickford
	Right honourable Theresa Mary May, Maidenhead
	Richard Henry Ronald Benyon, Newbury
	Rory Stewart, Penrith and The Border
	Desmond Angus Swayne, New Forest West
	Robert Alexander Stewart, Beckenham
	John Alexander Melvin Hemming, Birmingham, Yardley
	Christopher Heaton-Harris, Daventry
	Hugh Michael Robertson, Faversham and Mid Kent
	Iain Aitken Stewart, Milton Keynes South
	Frank Roy, Motherwell and Wishaw
	Julian Murray Lewis, New Forest East
	Andrew James Bridgen, North West Leicestershire
	Nigel John Mills, Amber Valley
	Anne Frances Milton, Guildford
	Right honourable David Lindon Lammy, Tottenham
	Jonathan Simon Djanogly, Huntingdon
	Neil Quentin Gordon Parish, Tiverton and Honiton
	Giacomo Lopresti, Filton and Bradley Stoke
	Jonathan Neil Reynolds, Stalybridge and Hyde
	Pat Glass, North West Durham
	Simon Anthony Hart, Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
	Michael Fraser Weir, Angus
	Paul Kenneth Burstow, Sutton and Cheam
	John David Pugh, Southport
	Angela Christine Smith, Penistone and Stocksbridge
	Martin John Vickers, Cleethorpes
	Edward Julian Egerton Leigh, Gainsborough
	Geraint Richard Davies, Swansea West
	Graham Stuart Brady, Altrincham and Sale West
	Stephen Hepburn, Jarrow
	Norman Peter Lamb, North Norfolk
	David Arthur Stephen Tredinnick, Bosworth
	John Robert Cryer, Leyton and Wanstead
	Phillip James Woolas, Oldham East and Saddleworth
	Richard Michael Bacon, South Norfolk
	Priti Patel, Witham
	Charles Brett Anthony Elphicke, Dover
	Robert Wilson, Reading East
	Alec Shelbrooke, Elmet and Rothwell
	Nigel Adams, Selby and Ainsty
	Charlotte Ann Leslie, Bristol North West
	Keith Robert Simpson, Broadland
	Samuel Phillip Gyimah, East Surrey
	Melvyn John Stride, Central Devon
	Wayne David, Caerphilly
	John Leech, Manchester, Withington
	Lyn Carol Brown, West Ham
	Kerry Gillian McCarthy, Bristol East
	John Archibald Thurso, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
	Iain David Wright, Hartlepool
	Dennis Edward Skinner, Bolsover
	Barbara Mary Keeley, Worsley and Eccles South
	James Sheridan, Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	Mary MacLeod, Brentford and Isleworth
	Stephen James Mosley, City of Chester
	Mark Jonathan Mortlock Simmonds, Boston and Skegness
	Claire Louise Perry, Devizes
	Damian Patrick George Hinds, East Hampshire
	Guto ap Owain Bebb, Aberconwy
	Right honourable Andrew Murray Burnham, Leigh
	Gregg McClymont, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
	Daniel John Rogerson, North Cornwall
	Margaret Patricia Munn, Sheffield, Heeley
	Gordon Raymond Banks, Ochil and South Perthshire
	Duncan John Hames, Chippenham
	Ian Graham Davidson, Glasgow South West
	Andrew Richard Rosindell, Romford
	Mark Andrew Pritchard, The Wrekin
	 Sitting suspended.
	 On resuming-
	 The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation, required by law:
	Anna Mary Soubry, Broxtowe
	Mark Steven Spencer, Sherwood
	Right honourable Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Dulwich and West Norwood
	Right honourable Frank Field, Birkenhead
	Geoffrey Robinson, Coventry North West
	Lindsay Roy, Glenrothes
	Ian Lavery, Wansbeck
	Grahame Mark Morris, Easington
	Ian Mearns, Gateshead
	Richard Harrington, Watford
	Sajid Javid, Bromsgrove
	Robert Henry Halfon, Harlow
	John Philip Glen, Salisbury
	Andrew James Griffiths, Burton
	Alexander Jesse Norman, Hereford and South Herefordshire
	David Morris, Morecambe and Lunesdale
	Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, South Dorset
	Robert John Blackman, Harrow East
	Mark Richard Tami, Alyn and Deeside
	Fiona Claire Bruce, Congleton
	Angie Bray, Ealing Central and Acton
	Esther Louise McVey, Wirral West
	Karl Ian McCartney, Lincoln
	Kristan Frederick Hopkins, Keighley
	Sarah James Wollaston, Totnes
	John Mark Lancaster, Milton Keynes North
	Andrew William Murrison, South West Wiltshire
	Daniel Leonard James Poulter, Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	Tracey Elizabeth Anne Crouch, Chatham and Aylesford
	Diane Julie Abbott, Hackney North and Stoke Newington
	Gisela Gschaider Stuart, Birmingham, Edgbaston
	Kelvin Peter Hopkins, Luton North
	Katy Clark, North Ayrshire and Arran
	Ann McKechin, Glasgow North
	Mary Theresa Glindon, North Tyneside
	Julie Elliott, Sunderland Central
	Right honourable Edward Samuel Miliband, Doncaster North
	Heather Kay Wheeler, South Derbyshire
	Gregory David Clark, Tunbridge Wells
	Peter Aldous, Waveney
	James George Morris, Halesowen and Rowley Regis
	Mark Robert Timothy Garnier, Wyre Forest
	Geoffrey Nicholas de Bois, Enfield North
	Pauline Elizabeth Latham, Mid Derbyshire
	Chuka Harrison Umunna, Streatham
	Ian Richard Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater and West Somerset
	Andrew Percy, Brigg and Goole
	Simon Justin Reevell, Dewsbury
	Lynne Choona Featherstone, Hornsey and Wood Green
	Dominic Rennie Raab, Esher and Walton
	Damian Noel Collins, Folkestone and Hythe
	Caroline Fiona Ellen Nokes, Romsey and Southampton North
	Caroline Julia Dinenage, Gosport
	Lorraine Fullbrook, South Ribble
	Conor Burns, Bournemouth West
	Mark Andrew Menzies, Fylde
	Roger Duncan Godsiff, Birmingham, Hall Green
	Annette Lesley Brooke, Mid Dorset and North Poole
	Eleanor Fulton Laing, Epping Forest
	John Michael Howell, Henley
	Philip Wilson, Sedgefield
	Charles Geoffrey Cox, Torridge and West Devon
	Chloe Rebecca Smith, Norwich North
	Michael John Gapes, Ilford South
	Andrew John Gwynne, Denton and Reddish
	Natascha Engel, North East Derbyshire
	Matthew Toby Perkins, Chesterfield
	William Roffen Esterson, Sefton Central
	Julie Anne Hilling, Bolton West
	Yasmin Qureshi, Bolton South East
	Daniel Robert Kawczynski, Shrewsbury and Atcham
	Stewart James Jackson, Peterborough
	Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, North Antrim
	Graham Thomas Evans, Weaver Vale
	Kate Green, Stretford and Urmston
	Rachel Jane Reeves, Leeds West
	Tobias Martin Ellwood, Bournemouth East
	John Douglas Wilson Carswell, Clacton
	Jonathan George Caladine Lord, Woking
	Richard Quentin Fuller, Bedford
	Julian Richard Smith, Skipton and Ripon
	Michael Thomas Hancock, Portsmouth South
	Lilian Rachel Greenwood, Nottingham South
	Owen Smith, Pontypridd
	Christopher James Evans, Islwyn
	Catherine Mary Jamieson, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	James Stephen Wharton, Stockton South
	John Henry Hayes, South Holland and The Deepings
	Julian Charles Sturdy, York Outer
	Craig Whittaker, Calder Valley
	Therese Anne Coffey, Suffolk Coastal
	Christopher James Skidmore, Kingswood
	Adrian Edward Bailey, West Bromwich West
	David Jonathan Edwards, Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
	Jeremy John Elton Lefroy, Stafford
	Jessica Katherine Lee, Erewash
	David Thomas Charles Davies, Monmouth
	James Hood, Lanark and Hamilton East
	Andrew Guy Tyrie, Chichester
	Christopher Pincher, Tamworth
	Nicola Ann Morgan, Loughborough
	Right honourable Wyvill Richard Nicolls Raynsford, Greenwich and Woolwich
	Stephen James McCabe, Birmingham, Selly Oak
	John Zak Woodcock, Barrow and Furness
	Clive Stanley Efford, Eltham
	Right honourable James Francis Murphy, East Renfrewshire
	John Mann, Bassetlaw
	George Freeman, Mid Norfolk
	Gavin Shuker, Luton South
	Bridget Maeve Phillipson, Houghton and Sunderland South
	Christopher Robert Chope, Christchurch
	George Edward Mudie, Leeds East
	Robert Andrew Stunell, Hazel Grove
	Graham William Allen, Nottingham North
	Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown, The Cotswolds
	Nicholas Desmond John Smith, Blaenau Gwent
	David Henry Rutley, Macclesfield
	Michael Richard Weatherley, Hove
	Simon Gerard Kirby, Brighton, Kemptown

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn. - (Bill Wiggin.)
	 House adjourned.